[78-L] 15, 000 opera 78s for $12K: 2 competing dealers - Frederick Md vs L Ho ldridge

[Steven C. Barr]

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From: "Michael Biel" <mbiel at mbiel.com>
> David Lennick wrote:
>> Steve Shapiro wrote:
>>> How many collectors keep their collections on shelves in warehouses?  
>> Ahem.
> You can see dl's shelving in his warehouse spaces in Leah's documentary 
> "for the Record".  We didn't get to my warehouses when taping, but in my 
> main warehouse space, 15 x 30 feet, all four walls are lined with 
> shelves, but there is still a row of unpacked boxes and some piles of 
> the university's record library that needs shelving in the empty 
> spaces.  They've just beendropped off quickly.  In the smaller spaces 
> where equipment and books are, there are shelves but a lot of piles as 
> well.  The outtakes we showed at ARSC NYC last fall included shots of my 
> New Jersey warehouse in 1985 with my mother looking at the shelves of 
> records moaning "When are you going to get rid of them?"
> Right now down in the basement there are 4 boxes from Darell Lehman and 
> one from Nauck blocking the bottom of the steps, but I just got home 
> Thursday.  But there are no free shelves for them yet.  Maybe the kid 
> next door can help me put the shelves up in a few weeks. (There goes 
> some more floor space!)
> But steve also asked what size room could house 15,000 78s.  It's about 
> 75 records per foot.  200 shelf feet.  5 shelves high would mean 40 feet 
> of shelving.  A 12 x 15 foot room could do it.
> 
Yup...and 40 feet of shelving translates into two 1"x12"x8' boards, which
run about $30 per each! If one builds sets of shelves 4 shelves high and
12 inches front to back, each such set needs four four-foot lengths of
1"x12" lumber...so we still need to lay out around $60 for lumber...?!

That's why I use milk boxes...?!

Steven C. Barr